The deluxe really is a beut little miner... I've spent the last few days stocking up on fullerite, Its not quite as profitable as the bullion but still it beat's having to jump halfway round the galaxy to find something to mine...
I did find a quad roid the other day...it was cleared away pretty smartly but i managed to get around a 100k iso's of ore...only problem is that there is no quad refinerey in raxia, and i havent heard of one anywhere near by either, I was going to refine it and put it to good use building some housing and commercial units for Aeten, But again not if it means jumping halfway across the galaxy to do it...besides id have to make at least 4 runs to refine all the ore i have. I wish that there was a better infrustructure in Raxia.
Ive also taken a look at the roids in Basia...some nice gold roids there...two big ones that i saw... Im thinking about relocating the main OCB assaying office to basia.... on my trips to basia i was able to take quite a few tons of Aeten Water with me.... seems they lap it up in basia as there is no natural souce of drinking water large enough to supply the systems needs.
I shall have to remember this for the future, seems there might be good profits to be made delivering good old Aeten Blue.
Havent really run into anyone new lately...I did catch up with my mate Cpt Hrosskell...seems he's cleaned himself up...got off the spice and has a new circle of friends...hopefully he'll be able to stay clean.
Samstag, 3. November 2007
Donnerstag, 1. November 2007
A little Deluxe
A couple of days went past and no message, just when i was about to send Corwin a message i noticed that my ship registry page was displaying a new miniac deluxe registered to me in orbit at Vega. I guess The Avalon Assembly had completed my ship and transfered ownership to me and had just forgotten to send me a message to inform me that it was available....I that sort of thing can happen when your busy.
I had a couple of the lads bring the ship back to Aeten on a skeleton crew for her naming ceremony.... We had a big ceremony and i christened her the Jones Folly 3. I now had a fleet of 3 ships to my name... things were definatly starting to look up. The new ship was everything i expected... it has all the nice extra features ive come to expect for the Avalon Assembly...leather seats with built in heaters for when your flying far from the local sun... private pre-stocked minibar in the captains suite... Thats in addition to the extra cargo space over the Mk1 miniac, the sophisticated scanners, and the improved minig bay... all of which should help me break even on her purchase cost even faster...
The deluxe is also built to be a bit more robust than the Mk1... she has 8 cannons, a shield and heavy armour... Im not sure why theyre needed, the closest think ive everseen to a warship are the V2 corvettes used by the roid scouts... still i guess it means shell be able to deal with any scout captain that get space sickness and goes nuts.
Now that she's christend i could'nt wait to put her through her paces... so im heading out to mine some roids....dont know if i mentioned it before but big betsy is no more...in all the coming and going to casia she was completly mined away....and now all that i seem to be able to find are fullerite roids... still i hear that a few bullion roids have been discovered in neighbouring basia... might be time to go back there and find out just what i got up to when we were on our saren trip...
I had a couple of the lads bring the ship back to Aeten on a skeleton crew for her naming ceremony.... We had a big ceremony and i christened her the Jones Folly 3. I now had a fleet of 3 ships to my name... things were definatly starting to look up. The new ship was everything i expected... it has all the nice extra features ive come to expect for the Avalon Assembly...leather seats with built in heaters for when your flying far from the local sun... private pre-stocked minibar in the captains suite... Thats in addition to the extra cargo space over the Mk1 miniac, the sophisticated scanners, and the improved minig bay... all of which should help me break even on her purchase cost even faster...
The deluxe is also built to be a bit more robust than the Mk1... she has 8 cannons, a shield and heavy armour... Im not sure why theyre needed, the closest think ive everseen to a warship are the V2 corvettes used by the roid scouts... still i guess it means shell be able to deal with any scout captain that get space sickness and goes nuts.
Now that she's christend i could'nt wait to put her through her paces... so im heading out to mine some roids....dont know if i mentioned it before but big betsy is no more...in all the coming and going to casia she was completly mined away....and now all that i seem to be able to find are fullerite roids... still i hear that a few bullion roids have been discovered in neighbouring basia... might be time to go back there and find out just what i got up to when we were on our saren trip...
Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007
Nobodies Fool
Well for the last few days ive been spending a considerable amount of my day heading down to the Aliance of Avalon Workshops to check if they have any of the De-luxe miners for sale...each time i get my hopes up and each time theyre dashed...On the up side though I am starting to amass a nice little nest egg of working capital so that after the purchase i wont be completely wipped out.
Then i noticed a new AoA mining ship... one id never seen before....a miniac elite.....well that sounds better than a deluxe i thought to my-self... So i decided to contact the captain that was flying it....Cpt Booter, the leader of the Technomage Alliance. I asked him if it was a custom built ship just for him of if it was a new line from AoA. He responded by telling me that it was actually just a prototype that would not make it into production because the cost of manufacture was too high... i was a bit dubous but took him at his word....
The next day however i saw another one....and after asking aound a bit found out that it was a special design that was only being made available for close allies of the AoA, Ha...i think Cpt Booter took me for a fool.... I may not be the brightest star in the night sky, but im nobodies fool... Time to find out who this Cpt booter really is i thought as i sat down at the googlpedia terminal....my investigations didnt turn up too much of interest...it seems he may have something to with starting up something or possibly he may just be a fetishist. In case its the later ill have to pay attention to what shoes i have on next time hes in the same grid as me...i wouldnt want him to think i might be easy prey.....
I contacted Cpt Corwin to try and convince him to allow mw to purchase one of the elite line, but he didnt really respond to my enquiries about it... I guess he wasnt aware that it was the OCB who were ensuring that the casia starbase had a good and steady supply of certified bullion...and at prices below his advertised purchasing price i might add... still we did manage to agree to a new strategy for ensuring i got to purchase the deluxe... i would pay in advance and he would transfer ownership to me when the ship was ready. So i sent hime the funds and went back to work...eagerly waiting for the message to arive that my new ship was available.
Then i noticed a new AoA mining ship... one id never seen before....a miniac elite.....well that sounds better than a deluxe i thought to my-self... So i decided to contact the captain that was flying it....Cpt Booter, the leader of the Technomage Alliance. I asked him if it was a custom built ship just for him of if it was a new line from AoA. He responded by telling me that it was actually just a prototype that would not make it into production because the cost of manufacture was too high... i was a bit dubous but took him at his word....
The next day however i saw another one....and after asking aound a bit found out that it was a special design that was only being made available for close allies of the AoA, Ha...i think Cpt Booter took me for a fool.... I may not be the brightest star in the night sky, but im nobodies fool... Time to find out who this Cpt booter really is i thought as i sat down at the googlpedia terminal....my investigations didnt turn up too much of interest...it seems he may have something to with starting up something or possibly he may just be a fetishist. In case its the later ill have to pay attention to what shoes i have on next time hes in the same grid as me...i wouldnt want him to think i might be easy prey.....
I contacted Cpt Corwin to try and convince him to allow mw to purchase one of the elite line, but he didnt really respond to my enquiries about it... I guess he wasnt aware that it was the OCB who were ensuring that the casia starbase had a good and steady supply of certified bullion...and at prices below his advertised purchasing price i might add... still we did manage to agree to a new strategy for ensuring i got to purchase the deluxe... i would pay in advance and he would transfer ownership to me when the ship was ready. So i sent hime the funds and went back to work...eagerly waiting for the message to arive that my new ship was available.
Freitag, 26. Oktober 2007
Star Fleet
Just the one message this morning....from Hroskell...he actually denies he is a spice addict...yeah right... everyone knows that admiting that your an addict is the first step to recovery...hell he didnt even use any of the medicies i slipped into his ships cargo.
On the political front theres been an election at Zeta, and Tigger of the Technomage Alliance has won. I dont know if there were any opponents but i do know that there wernt any candidates name until right before the nominations closed. The raxian Governing Fleet also seems to have been disolved, and a few of their members have re-formed under Captain Green tree as the Planetary Guild. I will have to undertake a diplomatic tour of raxia some time in the next few days.
After sorting out my mail I checked my cargo listings, A figure from the first day onboard the JF1 turned up, Axeman, although under a different psuedonym slipped a ton of silicon into the JF2. When i asked him about it he said he didnt have any nickle..... nah yeah it left me wondering.
When i arrived out at big betsy...who has lost quite a bit of weight lately, i was shocked to find here in the middle of a swarm of ships from the StarFleet Aliance. Id never seen them before ad then suddenly half a dozen turn up!!! Well i didnt want to get involved without knowing what was going on so i checked in googlpedia for the Starfleet aliance. Armed with more information i guessed that they figured that the F-01 was burried in betsy...how it would have got there i couldnt say... well i didnt want them to get Dai X onto me so i thought i should message their leader... i guess alex brown was promoted after Dr Benn's untimely death.
Hello Cpt Alex Brown,
Im sending out a message across the galaxy because I came across a large number of your captains today searching for the F-01 inside the roid that ive been mining. Can you please ask them to make sure that they dont destroy too much of the ore as i have a planet to support and without the income from my gold sales i will struggle to be able to afford to supply the nutrient packs that my people so desperately need.
If i can help in anyway with your search please let me know.
p.s. my warmest congraulations on succeding Dr Benn.
It cant hurt to have StarFleet at least on friendly terms should the Imperial Alliance attack here.
On the political front theres been an election at Zeta, and Tigger of the Technomage Alliance has won. I dont know if there were any opponents but i do know that there wernt any candidates name until right before the nominations closed. The raxian Governing Fleet also seems to have been disolved, and a few of their members have re-formed under Captain Green tree as the Planetary Guild. I will have to undertake a diplomatic tour of raxia some time in the next few days.
After sorting out my mail I checked my cargo listings, A figure from the first day onboard the JF1 turned up, Axeman, although under a different psuedonym slipped a ton of silicon into the JF2. When i asked him about it he said he didnt have any nickle..... nah yeah it left me wondering.
When i arrived out at big betsy...who has lost quite a bit of weight lately, i was shocked to find here in the middle of a swarm of ships from the StarFleet Aliance. Id never seen them before ad then suddenly half a dozen turn up!!! Well i didnt want to get involved without knowing what was going on so i checked in googlpedia for the Starfleet aliance. Armed with more information i guessed that they figured that the F-01 was burried in betsy...how it would have got there i couldnt say... well i didnt want them to get Dai X onto me so i thought i should message their leader... i guess alex brown was promoted after Dr Benn's untimely death.
Hello Cpt Alex Brown,
Im sending out a message across the galaxy because I came across a large number of your captains today searching for the F-01 inside the roid that ive been mining. Can you please ask them to make sure that they dont destroy too much of the ore as i have a planet to support and without the income from my gold sales i will struggle to be able to afford to supply the nutrient packs that my people so desperately need.
If i can help in anyway with your search please let me know.
p.s. my warmest congraulations on succeding Dr Benn.
It cant hurt to have StarFleet at least on friendly terms should the Imperial Alliance attack here.
Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007
The Expansion
I have come to the conclusion that after only limited sales of bullion over the last few days that I have saturated the Raxian market. Only now am i begining to see other large mining ships around raxia. The current situation is untenable i cannot go on mining gold and not have it selling, besides the storage costs will ruin me.
I decide to remove a full cargo holds full from the market pack it up and take it to Casia, I figure with the blooming ship building industry that Corwin has developed, i should be able to sell it quickly, I listed it a bit higher than what i normally list bullion for in Raxia to cover transportation costs but it was still significantly lower than the othe lots of bullion for sale.... I cant imagine people would be willing to pay those prices... still i shall have to see how my sales go, If it sells too quickly then i can allways list it for more next time.
While checking prices in Casia i noted that Zaran had a lot of silicon available for sale at very reasonable prices. I didnt like the idea of returning to raxia with an empty caro hold so i stopped off on the way home and grabbed a few Iso's of silicon.... During the trip back to raxia i came up with another idea to expand my range of products on offer, I already had access to some of the best gold bullion in the galaxy, and with a load of silicon, it was begging me that is hould enter into the electronics game, I had seen the prices offered by Crowin in Casia and if i was bothered to spend the time then i would be able to speeze a little more profit out of my mining endeavours, besides it might also help reduce the glut of bullion in raxia and help drive prices up a little.
I finished off the day hanging out meeting new folks at the manufactory while my electronics were being produced.
I decide to remove a full cargo holds full from the market pack it up and take it to Casia, I figure with the blooming ship building industry that Corwin has developed, i should be able to sell it quickly, I listed it a bit higher than what i normally list bullion for in Raxia to cover transportation costs but it was still significantly lower than the othe lots of bullion for sale.... I cant imagine people would be willing to pay those prices... still i shall have to see how my sales go, If it sells too quickly then i can allways list it for more next time.
While checking prices in Casia i noted that Zaran had a lot of silicon available for sale at very reasonable prices. I didnt like the idea of returning to raxia with an empty caro hold so i stopped off on the way home and grabbed a few Iso's of silicon.... During the trip back to raxia i came up with another idea to expand my range of products on offer, I already had access to some of the best gold bullion in the galaxy, and with a load of silicon, it was begging me that is hould enter into the electronics game, I had seen the prices offered by Crowin in Casia and if i was bothered to spend the time then i would be able to speeze a little more profit out of my mining endeavours, besides it might also help reduce the glut of bullion in raxia and help drive prices up a little.
I finished off the day hanging out meeting new folks at the manufactory while my electronics were being produced.
Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007
The Shoe in
I Finished off my business on the Starbase and returned to Aeten to begin the campaign trail... the election nominations have closed and im the only candidate....I dont know why no-one else ran, after all what is their not to like about Aeten... Hydrophobes ha.
The Campaigning was more like a party, i flew in a few thousand iso's of Rumino Ale, we shut down the purification plant and then had a good old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootenanny hootenanny. Afterwards all i had to do was make sure at least one citizen was able to cast a vote...which they did...twas me ;) everyone else was to busy enjoying themselves.....
After I was sworn into office, I held interviews and have appointed a chief of staff and secretary, but other than making sure the planet is supplied with goods there seems to be nothing else to do as president .....
I decided that i should trade up the JonesFolly 2 for the MK2 Deluxe version, Cpt. Bjondiers of the --- had one parked in orbit I had seen in orbit over Aeten... but when i went to check the planetary cofers.... well there was as much chance of finding credits as finding sunken treasure. Aeten was bankrupt....ah well no rest for the wicked... If i want to be getting about in a ship more befitting a planetary president then id need to head back out to betsy and make some money the old fashioned way.
The Campaigning was more like a party, i flew in a few thousand iso's of Rumino Ale, we shut down the purification plant and then had a good old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootenanny hootenanny. Afterwards all i had to do was make sure at least one citizen was able to cast a vote...which they did...twas me ;) everyone else was to busy enjoying themselves.....
After I was sworn into office, I held interviews and have appointed a chief of staff and secretary, but other than making sure the planet is supplied with goods there seems to be nothing else to do as president .....
I decided that i should trade up the JonesFolly 2 for the MK2 Deluxe version, Cpt. Bjondiers of the --- had one parked in orbit I had seen in orbit over Aeten... but when i went to check the planetary cofers.... well there was as much chance of finding credits as finding sunken treasure. Aeten was bankrupt....ah well no rest for the wicked... If i want to be getting about in a ship more befitting a planetary president then id need to head back out to betsy and make some money the old fashioned way.
Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007
A Hero's Welcome
Today while i was listing the latest batch of OCB certified bullion in the starbase market i heard that my home planet of Aeten was having a real hard time of it....apparently there was a major shortage of Nutrient packs, I hated to think of my childhood friends starving... so i decided to put my miners larger hold to charitable use rather than profit. I Ferried in several loads of nutrient packs from Brax, and a bunch of medicines.
While i was taking some shore leave to catch up with mom and dad, word got around the neighbour hood that it was me that had brough the hutrient packs in ( i Had tried to keep things quite ) and next thing i know there is a massive crowd outside all wanting to see me and shake my hand...I had heard it was getting bad but i had no idea that it was that bad.... apparently the Prsident Munstard hadnt been seen or heard from in ages...the planet was bankrupt and trade had all but dried up.
A new election had been called and before i had a chance to say no i found my name being listed on the candidate forms....
Ah well the election doesnt start just yet, perhapes the enthusiasim for me will die down once i head back to the starbase...although i have vowed to make sure that supplies never run that short again.
While i was taking some shore leave to catch up with mom and dad, word got around the neighbour hood that it was me that had brough the hutrient packs in ( i Had tried to keep things quite ) and next thing i know there is a massive crowd outside all wanting to see me and shake my hand...I had heard it was getting bad but i had no idea that it was that bad.... apparently the Prsident Munstard hadnt been seen or heard from in ages...the planet was bankrupt and trade had all but dried up.
A new election had been called and before i had a chance to say no i found my name being listed on the candidate forms....
Ah well the election doesnt start just yet, perhapes the enthusiasim for me will die down once i head back to the starbase...although i have vowed to make sure that supplies never run that short again.
Abonnieren
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